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Introduction sociophysics, which uses tools and concepts from the physics of disordered matter to describe some aspects of social and political behavior, answers in the affirmative. Sociophysics, which uses tools and concepts from the physics of disordered matter to describe some aspects of social and political behavior, answers in the affirmative. In view of this, some scientists including a few economists have begun to think that maybe economics is too important to be left to economists alone. Though the major developments in sociophysics have taken place only recently, the earliest attempts of proposing social physics as a discipline are more than one and a half centuries old. Scottsamuel, experimental psychology, university of bristol, bristol, uk.
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